So, I wrote this little blog in week 6 of the course, saved it as a draft, and totally forgot about it over mid semester break…. yeah. But alls well, I’ll just post it now:

To be honest, for the past few weeks that we have been discussing Hypertext, I haven’t really fully understood it. I havn’t really been able to pin point exactly what it is and what it’s purpose is. But, in yesterdays tutorial, we had a short conversation with Elliot about it, and it helped me wrap my head around it a bit more.

Two main points I took away from this discussion were:

Hypertext exists in formats: Writing and video. Writing the most common. However, some audio projects occurring right now.

An idea from Landow – Hypertext mirrors the way we interact with the world. In many ways it reflects our way of thinking.